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I was thinking of posting that... but then I read the comments and got so pissed off that I forgot.
I'm very grateful for Seldom Killer's statistics on the sources of funding for road building/maintenance. Will keep them handy for the next time some idiot with a gas-guzzling, CO2-farting vehicle tries to tell me that cyclists have no right to be on the road because we don't pay road tax.
The paper version of the article also contains a nice little graphic with some eye-catching statistics:
136 cyclists that died on Britain's roads last year
16195 cyclists were injured last year (2428 of whom were seriously injured)
90% of casualties occur in urban areas
80% of casualties occur in daylight
80% of casualties are male